-----Original Message----- From: Jason Pyeron Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 16:04 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building a Back Blaze style POD
-----Original Message----- From: John R Pierce Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 15:24 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building a Back Blaze style POD
On 05/08/11 12:06 PM, Jason wrote:
Rudy,
Do you have a recommendation of a motherboard?
I am still reading the rest of your post. Thanks!
most any server board that supports dual intel xeon
5500/5600 will let
you pretty easily add 24GB per CPU socket while using relatively affordable 4GB dimms.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DA6. cfm?SAS=N or whatever
you might look at these chassis, which are, IMHO, better engineered than that backblaze thing
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E16-R1400U.cfm
And http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1149005
If you can use less drives, this would be more cost effective (time building & time fixing)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038 [400$]
And then if you wwant raid: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681611814
1 [1300$] or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115095 [700$]
this supports 36 SAS/SATA drives in a 4U (24 in front, 12 in back) and has SAS2 backplane multiplexers so you don't need
nearly as
many SAS/SATA cards
ps, I hate Outlook.
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